Environmental Monitoring Branch
Research Scientist

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Felix Kogan received a M.S. in Agricultural Meteorology
from Odessa Meteorological Institute, USSR and a Ph.D. in Environmental
Sciences from the World Meteorological Center, Moscow, USSR. After serving
as a Senior Scientist at the World Meteorological Center in Moscow, USSR
until 1980, he spent five years at the University of Missouri-Columbia
as a Research Associate. Felix joined NESDIS in 1985, applying his
expertise to a number of areas, including remote sensing; ecosystems;
climate and weather impact assessments; land cover/land use change;
monitoring droughts, desertification and deforestation; mosquito-borne
diseases; productivity of land landscape; some issues of agriculture
and forestry; agricultural meteorology and climatology; and environmental
zoning.

Interests & Duties

Research and development in the application of satellite data to the
solution of environmental problem with the specific emphasis on land and
atmosphere. The topics include climate and weather impacts on ecosystems
and human activities, climate variability, environmental hazards,
satellite data application and interpretation. Developed advanced
technique for monitoring drought, fire risk, El Nino/La Nina features,
and mosquito-borne epidemics from operational environmental satellites.
Principal investigator of numerous national and international projects
funded by the Agency for International Development, by-national funds,
UN=s Food and Agricultural Organization, NATO and NOAA. International
cooperation activities with government institutions, universities, and
private organizations transferring new technologies. Author and co-
author more than 150 scientific papers, including book chapters.

Felix's current projects include the following:

Research and development in the application of satellite data to
the solution of environmental problems with the specific emphasis
on land and atmosphere.

Studies of climate and weather impacts on ecosystems and human
activities, climate variability, environmental hazards, land cover
land use change, satellite data application and interpretation.

Developing data sets the for Global Earth Observing System of Systems (GEOSS).

Felix has acted as Principal Investigator of numerous national and
international projects funded by the Agency for International Development,
the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization, NATO and NOAA.
He has lead global-scale international cooperation with government
institutions, universities, and private organizations in transferring new
technologies. He is a member of the UN World Meteorological Organization
(WMO) Technical Team and of the editorial board of the Indian Journal of Remote Sensing.